Happy Halloween!!!!

Lucas is very excited for Trick or Treat tonight! He will have his usual entourage and paparazzi, with grandma Jane, Grandma Shirley, and Aunt Lisa coming over this evening.

He went to his school party yesterday for a few hours and had a great time, his teachers told me he was very excited to tell them he was Grady Sizemore : ) I counted 4 Spidermen, a construction worker and a bunch of little princesses when I dropped him off, but I sure did not see any more baseball players, so that is cool.

While Lucas was at school for three hours it was amazing how much I got done with out a 3 yr old. I picked up my grandma, got gas in the car for .79 a gallon(Thank you Get Go card), we went to the post office to mail out some packages, went to the mall, I got a pr of jeans and a new winter coat, Lucas a Christmas sweater, and grandma got the kids some presents, we ate lunch, stopped at the bank and the drug store, and we still 30 min to kill before we picked up Lucas, we were laughing cause every time we looked at the clock, it was still so early.

Then we went back to grandma's where Lucas told me to go to work so he could have his most favorite play toy, gramma gramma, all to himself, so I went grocery shopping LOL!

A good day all in all, if I could unblock my ear and stop coughing, and Lucas's nose would stop being stuffy and icky we might be in business, but it does not look like the creeping crud will be going away anytime soon, flu shots next week, yay!

Sappy little love post

There are few things in life that cause me to get all sweet and sappy. My son is the usual suspect.

I know that having him edge me out of our bed when he climbs in it with us is often uncomfortable, and inconvenient, but there are times when I love it.

There is nothing sweeter than watching your beautiful little baby drift groggily off to sleep, wrapped in your arms. I realize in these times that he is only three now, but look how fast the last three years went, all things considered. There will be a time all too soon, that mommy is no longer the only person in the world who can make it all right. And he will not lay there an cuddle with me.

So as I lay there with him late at night or early in the morning, I try to savor the sweet little angel who rolls over and say sleepily, "I Wuv You MOMMY", and who runs his fingers thru my hair before we drift off. And sometimes he does not punch me in the nose, but purposely throws an arm around my neck to hang on to me while he sleeps, or gently touches my face the way I do to him.

Yes, there is something precious about that time with the little boy I love so much in a way I did not even know existed for another human being til he came along. Darned kid : )

So after the circus

I nearly forgot this part, I think I temporarily blocked it out.

So after the circus and carving pumpkins, the kids were hungry, I was too tired to cook, so I took Alyssa and Lucas to Wendy's before taking Alyssa home. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

We ordered, and the kids went to go find a seat, really Alyssa took him with her to find a seat cause he was whining at me to hold him, he is too heavy and I was too tired, he is exhausting.

I get all the food, ketchup, napkins and walk it very carefully to the table, where I set it down and Alyssa's lemonade topples off the tray, and opens and spills all over both kids. I felt terrible. So there is a huge puddle on the table, Lucas's one pants leg is soaked and he is freaking out. I am trying to get another lemonade and tell the kid at the counter that there is a mess I made. I get the lemonade and the very nice kid sees the harried mom and rushes over to clear the mess. I take everythinfg from the table to another one.

Meanwhile Lucas is screaming "get my pants off, they're wet Ahh", and stripping in the middle of the restaurant, I remember that at the beginning of pottytraining I had a bag with extra pants and go to the van to see if it is still there. Of course it wasn't, so I go back in and put napkins down Lucas' pants, explaining to him that I would take his pants off when we ate and were in the car and beg him to just eat his food. To which he replies "GOOD GOD" and sits down, promptly deciding he had to pee now, so we had to take out the napkins, get new ones so he could go, then we tried to eat dinner. In the time it took to clean the mess and fight with Lucas about his pants, I should have gotten off my lazy butt at home and made chicken nuggets and fries there. That will teach me.

When we got in the car, I took his pants off despite it being 50 degrees out, took Alyssa home and I could not get him in bed fast enough so I could go to bed. Again, good times : )

Circus

Yesterday we went to The Greatest Show On Earth!

4 tickets to circus-80.00

Food at the concession stand-40.00

2 snow cones in light up cups-30.00 (no, that is not a typo)

Parking at Tower City-6.00

Hearing Lucas say, "I had so much fun"-Priceless

Well, not really, it was almost 200.00, but we still had fun : )

It started off as any family outing to an event usually does, with us maneuvering thru thousands of people, taking Lucas to use the bathroom, once we find one, and deciding who wants what to eat, cause these thing always seem to fall at lunch time and we are all starving. We then go to the counter, where I have to put Lucas down, which makes him mad, mom should hold him at all times and daddy is not allowed too, really annoying. So as I am trying to get the order for 4 people right, and pay, I have Lucas hanging off me screaming at me to hold him, and Larry threatening Lucas we are going to just go home. Then Larry claims I was overcharged as I walk away with the food, becasue he cannot ever believe anything costs as much as it does, even though the menu was pretty clear. So he is yelling at me I am not paying attention to the food order, I am yelling that I cannot concentrate on anything with Lucas screaming and hanging off me, and he is saying he is just leaving.

I then go over the items I purchased, and their prices, calm Lucas down, he realizes it is correct as awful as it is, and we find our seats. Everyone happily eats, we apologize to each other, and things go smoothly the rest of the afternoon. Good times, good times, I love a family day out!

We carved our two pumpkins when we got home and pictures will be up sometime this week

Temper tantrums

Lucas had three temper tantrums before 7am this morning. He was in time out twice. OH MY GOD.

The first one was because he asked for a waffle, I always let him put it in the toaster, and push the lever down, well, I got the waffle out of the freezer and forgot to read his mind that HE wanted to get it out of the box in the freezer as well. Ridiuclous, so he tells me to SHUT UP, which always results in an automatic time out, cause that is the one nasty thing we cannot get him to stop saying, and no three yr old should tell anyone to SHUT UP.

After that time out, Daddy asked if he could stop crying and listen to him for a minute, which resulted an a repeated NO, which is something he purposely does to Larry, just to tick him off. So it was back to time out, where he screamed for another 3 minutes.

Then he calmed down, we got the waffle out of the freezer, he put it in the toaster, and I asked how he wanted it, plain or with syrup. Syrup he says. So I make it with syrup, then he screams and cries he wants it no syrup. I am aggravated, it is not even 7am yet, so I throw another waffle in the toaster, then he decides he wants syrup, takes the plate, sits down and eats it as if nothing else ever happened. OH MY GOD.

Days off on Thursdays

My Thursday day off from work is one of my favorite days of the week, and also usually my busiest. Generally they leave me exhausted and ready to go back to work the next day : ) yesterday we did not do too much, it was a calmer Thursday. I started off by doing 4 loads of laundry, vaccuuming and dusting the whole house, and the kitchen floor since Riley thinks he needs to roll in the mulch everytime he goes outside. I folded laundry, went to two stores and the bank, fed Lucas every 5 minutes he decided he needed something else to eat, peanut butter bread is the newest craze, Put Ratatouille in the DVD player 3 times only to have Lucas watch 5 min of it every time, spent an hour on the computer uploading pictures for various reasons, played outside with Lucas and walked him and the dogs around the block, made a 'real' dinner as opposed to the quick crap we eat all the rest of the week after work. Cleaned up the kitchen, bathed Lucas and got him to bed early, only for him to be up and down most of the night, and with him on my pillow every time I tried to move in bed, when I realized I only had 3 inches of space-in a king size bed.

I am glad to be at work today as much as I love my day with my boy : ) cause now I can rest.

We will miss you Maggie

Sad news form a neighbor of mine today. Her beautiful 11 yr old German Shepard Maggie passed away last week. Maggie was the gentlest, sweetest dog I have encountered in a long time. She never needed to be on a leash, she was Omar's friend, they played together every time we walked past the house. She was everyone's friend for that matter, on our street to around the block. The elderly neighbor lady was so distraught telling me, I did not know what else to do except hug her and cry with her : ( Maggie was her only companion, this woman's only daughter lives in another state, her husband is long gone. Maggie took care of her and she took care of Maggie. She was a good dog.

I really am not a fan of people

Anyone who knows me knows I do not like people much-at all. Most people that I run across (not people I know) just get in my way, are stupid and annoy me.

At lunch I went across the street to Kohls, just to browse, I picked up a few items, nothing much, or incredibly necessary at this time, but I had a toy for a friend's son for Christmas, a top for Alyssa for Christmas, a pair of 1.00 halloween socks, for me and a little sweater for Lucas that would be cute for Christmas for him to wear, all were on sale. I got in the shorter line behind two older ladies with 25 min to spare before I needed to be back in my seat at work.

The first lady getting rung up, it was 10 minutes, she needed,t his many boxes, NO, that many boxes, a bag for this, a bag for that, the cashier was singing to the Muzak, it was ridiculous. the next woman's turn comes, and the cashier walks off to ask for more boxes form the other cashier, who was just as slow. This lady had to remind her to not forget her senior discount, as if you coulda missed it. The cashier is singing and dancing to the Muzak.

At that point, I was going to be late, I set down my stuff, uttered a few choice words about how they needed more cashiers, that weren't stupid and how we all did not have all day, some of us worked.

I think I will skip Kohls for awhile, I am still annoyed. Not that annoying me is a hard thing to do, but that was just another reason to hate people in general. : )

Conversations with a three yr old

The age of three is hilarious, and frustrating, but mostly hilarious due to all the crazy things Lucas says. Three is an age where you can begin to reason with kids, therefore threats and bribes are fabulous. It really does not take much sometimes, others, ugh. Conversations with a three year old mostly go like this:
Lucas, please throw your wrapper in the garbage
NO, you do it
No, it is YOUR wrapper, please throw it away, I am not the maid, I am your mother.
You are not the maid?
No, I am your mom
Why?
Cause that is the way it happened Lucas.
Why?
Because I said so, now throw away your wrapper
I don't want to
Boy, if you do not throw that wrapper away now, I am goin got bust your butt and you will not go trick or treating next week.
Okay, okay, I want to go trick or treating, GEEZ, throws arms up and sighs!!! he throws it away though.

OR

Lucas, it is bedtime, and you are going to sleep in your big boy bed tonight, because you are a big boy.
I want to sleep in mommy's bed.
No Lucas, you have your own bed.
I can't, I'm too tired (what?)
You are to tired to sleep in your bed?
yes, and I am too little
Lucas your bed is the perfect size for you
I am so tired, I will just take a little nap on the table
Have you lost your mind, get into bed before you sit in time out.
I'm too sick for time out.
Oh, you are too sick, then I guess we cannot go to the circus in a few days, you may still be too sick.
I'm not sick, I am too big.
Lucas get in your bed and stay there.
Don't close the door, check on me
Of course we will check on you and no we will not shut the door
I want to sleep in mommy's bed

See, hilarious and frustrating, everything is a battle. But where do they come up with these things

Ah kids

My first post

Wow, a BLOG all about ME! I love to talk, to myself or anyone who will listen, so lets see how this goes. I originally just signed up so I did not have to anonymously post responses to a few other blogs I follow, but it seemed like so much fun I wanted to jump on the wagon too.

Not a whole lot going on today, Lucas let us sleep last night, mostly, but he was in our bed, so it could have been a more comfortable night. We got the King size bed when I was pregnant, it was huge then, and the dogs both slept with us comfortably, but that bed is slowly closing in. It could be the fact that I have gained about 20 lbs in the last 4 yrs, or because a 30 lb kid takes up more than half and decides he should sleep in it EVERY night, fo at least some duration if he cannot convince us to just let him get in our bed in the first place, which happens a lot, we are tired, you know?

He ends up sideways, flails and gives someone a black eye almost ever night, edges you right off the bed, it never ceases to amaze me, you put him back in his bed, and you wake up with a fist in your face with no recollection to how he got there, sigh. Oh well. We will sleep again one day, I suppose. I have been saying that for three years...................

But he sure is CUTE!